Industry-versus firm-specific effects on performance: Contrasting SMEs and large-sized firms

European Management Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 231-243

  Caloghirou, Yiannis ^a   Protogerou, Aimilia ^a   Spanos, Yiannis ^b   Papagiannakis, Lefteris ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Firm profitability; Firm size; Firm specific effects; Industry effects

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642346886     PISSN: 02632373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2004.01.017     Document Type: Article

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